Ninghui Li

Professor of Computer Science

Joined department: 2003

Education

PhD, New York University, Computer Science (2000)

MS, New York University, Computer Science (1998)

BS, University of Science and Technology of China, Computer Science (1993)

Ninghui Li is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue
University. He has been doing research in security and privacy, including data
privacy, applied cryptography, access control, trust management, and human factors in security and privacy. He has published over 150
referred papers in these areas. His 2007
paper ``t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity'' recently
received the ICDE 2017 Influential Paper award.

Prof. Li was elected Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on
Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) in 2017. From 2013 to 2017, he served as SIGSAC's Vice Chair. He
is on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), Journal of Computer
Security (JCS), and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
(TOIT); and was on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) from 2011 to 2015 and the VLDB Journal
from 2007 to 2013.

Prof. Li has served on the Program Committees of over 150
international conferences and workshops in computer
security, databases, and data mining. In 2014 and 2015, he
has served as the Program Chair for ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM's flagship
conference in the field of security and privacy.

Prof. Li's
research has been supported by multiple NSF grants, including an NSF
CAREER award in 2005. His research has also been supported by Air
Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Army Research Office (ARO),
National Security Agency (NSA), IBM Research, Google, and Samsung. He collaborated with Dr. Bertino on NSF and
AFOSR funded projects.